This research guide relays some basic information on library and information resources pertaining to the concerns of this department, as provided by University Libraries and/or sites on the World Wide Web.

1. To Shelf-Browse for Books (using main Library of Congress Subject Divisions)

Books on subjects associated with this field are shelved under the call number ranges listed below. Use TOPCAT to search for specific items in the collection, or more narrowly-defined subjects.

P-PA (Philology, Linguistics, Classical Philology, Classical Linguistics) ------- PB-PH (Modern European Languages) ------- PE Dictionaries (of all kinds, including the OED, Thesauri, Slang...) ------- PF (German Dictionaries) ------- PL (African Writers) ------- PN (Literature: General, Quotations, etc.) ------- PQ (French, Italian, Spanish, Mexican, Latin American, & Portuguese Literatures) ------- PR (English Literature) ------- PS (American Literature) ------- PT (German Literature) ------- PZ (Juvenile Belles Lettres)

2. To Find Journal and Magazine Articles (using indexing/abstracting/full-text services)

The following are recommended for courses for first-year students and non-majors:

• Academic Search Premier and MasterFILE Premier: These two all-subject WWW-based services (they are part of the EBSCOhost system) feature indexing and abstracting of many journals and magazines WKU Libraries receives in hardcopy, plus a large selection of articles in full-text.
• MLA (Modern Language Association): A WWW-based database available through Literature Online which exhaustively indexes all literature of the field of Literature, Languages, Linguistics, and Folklore.
• Literature Online: Contains full text of over 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, along with literature journals and other key criticism and reference resources. Also Indexes scholarly books and articles on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. Includes a combined search with the MLA International Bibliography.
• Google Scholar: A free Web-based Google service that restricts searches to the scholarly literature. Now features linking to full-text of articles held by WKU.

The following are recommended for use by advanced students and researchers:

• Art and Humanities Citation Index (AHSearch): FirstSearch database available to faculty and graduate students (and to undergraduate students by special permission). Indexes over 1,300 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, 1980 to present.
• Alt-Press Watch has full text of over 170 alternative and independent newspapers, magazines and journals.
• Alt-Press Index: FirstSearch database available to faculty and graduate students (and to undergraduate students by special permission). Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political & social change.
• ArticleFirst: FirstSearch database available to faculty and graduate students (and to undergraduate students by special permission). Indexes almost 13,000 journals and magazines from 1990 onward, including some ninety percent of the ones University Libraries carries in hardcopy.
• Digital Dissertations Full Text: For access to doctoral dissertations and master's theses.

Special resource:  TDNet Electronic Journal Finder [use to access Libraries' electronic journals, magazines, and newspapers, as well as some indexes and databases containing full-text articles; includes a comprehensive A-Z listing of titles]
Special resource:  KenCat [A searchable catalog of the collections at the Kentucky Library & Museum. KenCat includes manuscripts, letters, sheet music, photographs, museum exhibits, images, journals, and books.]

3. Monographic and Other Materials (in the Helm Library, unless specially noted)

The following are recommended for general reference use:

Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory (PN81 .E43) ------- Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (PN6080 .O95) ------- Columbia Grainger Index to Poetry (Index Table XI) ------- Dictionary of Literary Biography (Index Table III) ------- Contemporary Authors (Index Table IV) ------- Reader's Guide to Women's Studies (Z7961 .R43 1998) ------- Encyclopedia of Feminist Literary Theory (PN98 .W64 E53 1997) ------- Southern Writers (PS261 .S59) ------- Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism (PN761 .N5) ------- Contemporary Literary Criticism (PN771 .C59) ------- Twentieth Century Literary Criticism (PN771 .T85x) ------- Southern Writers (PS261 .S59) ------- Speech Index (Index Table XI) ------- Plot Locator (Index Table XI) ------- Short Story Index (Index Table XI) ------- Play Index (Index Table XI) ------- Book Review Index (Index Table XII) ------- Book Review Digest (Index Table XII) ------- Biography and Genealogy Master Index (Index Table I) ------- works (printed and manuscript) in the Kentucky Building by and about Kentucky authors (including Janice Holt Giles, Alice Hegan Rice, Jesse Stuart and Robert Penn Warren)

For citing:

MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (LB2369 .G53 1999; in Ready Ref.); Oxford English Dictionary (PE1625 .O87)

Information on places to send creative writing, book manuscripts, poetry:

Literary Market Place (PN161 .L51x; in Ready Ref.); Writer's Market (PN161 .W83)

4. English Faculty

Department of English Faculty & Staff:  http://www.wku.edu/Dept/Academic/AHSS/English/faculty.html

5. Related Professional Societies (for professional news, careers/jobs, memberships, etc.)

• Academy of American Poets http://www.poets.org/
• Association of Departments of English (ADE) http://www.ade.org/
• College English Association (CEA) http://www.as.ysu.edu/~english/cea/ceaindex.htm
• Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) http://www.ncte.org/groups/cee
• Conference on English Education (CEE) http://www.ncte.org/groups/cee/
• Modern Language Association http://www.mla.org/
• National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) http://www.ncte.org/
• Society for the Preservation of English Language and Literature (SPELL) http://www.spellorg.com/
• Teachers of English to Speakers of other Languages (TESOL) http://www.tesol.org/s_tesol/index.asp

6. Recommended Web Sites

Text archives:

• Searchable index to books online by title or author http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/

Individual (and schools of) Authors (alphabetically arranged):

• The Beat Generation--Literary Kicks http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/page.jsp?what=BeatGen
• Blake Digital Text Project http://virtual.park.uga.edu/wblake/home1.html
• British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832 http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/English/BWRP/index.htm
• A Celebration of Women Writers http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/
• Kate Chopin http://www.pbs.org/katechopin/
• Renaissance Dante in Print (1472-1629) http://www.nd.edu/~italnet/dante/
• Emory Women Writers Resource Project http://chaucer.library.emory.edu/wwrp/
• The Literature & Culture of the American 1950s http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/home.html
• Jack London http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/London/
• The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Texts/Marlowe.html
• Psychedelic 60s: Literary Tradition & Social Change http://www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/sixties/index.html
• Romantic Circles [Romantic Period literature & culture] http://www.rc.umd.edu/
• Shakespeare http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/
• Shakespeare http://www.shakespeare.com
• Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels http://www.jaffebros.com/lee/gulliver/
• Mark Twain at Large (His Travels Here and Abroad) http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/Exhibits/MTP/
• Walt Whitman Notebooks http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wwhtml/wwhome.html
• Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color http://voices.cla.umn.edu/

Individual Literary Works (alphabetically arranged):

• Aesop's Fables http://www.pacificnet.net/~johnr/aesop/
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [w/original illustrations] http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/Web/People/rgs/alice-table.html
• Electronic Beowulf http://www.uky.edu/~kiernan/eBeowulf/guide.htm
• Bible Gateway [searchable bibles] http://bible.gospelcom.net/
• Cinderella Project [various versions of this fairy tale] http://www.thecinderellaproject.com/
• Ulysses for Dummies http://www.bway.net/~hunger/ulysses.html

Miscellaneous Subjects (alphabetically arranged):

• Alex Catalogue [an Index to on-line texts, can create PDF files] http://www.infomotions.com/alex/
• American and English Language Internet Resources [gateway] http://library.scsu.ctstateu.edu/litbib.html#amgen
• American Studies Web [American Studies resources on the Internet] http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/asw/
• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations http://www.bartleby.com/100/
• Books On-line, Listed by Author http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
• Calls for Papers http://eserver.org/calls/
• Cambridge History of English and American Literature http://www.bartleby.com/cambridge/
• Critical Reading: A Guide for Beginning Literature Students http://www.brocku.ca/english/jlye/criticalreading.html
• CTHEORY [an international electronic review of books on theory, technology and culture at Concordia University] http://www.ctheory.net/default.asp
• CWRL [electronic journal: Computer Writing, Rhetoric & Literature] http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/
• Cultronix http://eserver.org/cultronix/
• Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/dp/pennies/home.html
• English Server http://eserver.org/
• The EServer (Univ. of Washington) [index to English materials & E-journals] http://eserver.org/
• Index to European Literature online http://www.lib.virginia.edu/wess/etexts.html
• Exemplaria http://web.english.ufl.edu/exemplaria/
• English Department Home Pages Worldwide http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/english/links/engdpts.html
• English Language and Literatures [materials by genre & period] http://www.virginia.edu/cla/englit.htm
• English Literature on the Web [search by century, or topic] http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/EngLit.html
• Faerie and Fey Lore Pages http://www.comnet.ca/~jkahane/hobbies/faeries.html
• Favorite Poem Project http://www.favoritepoem.org/
• Feminism and Women's Studies http://eserver.org/feminism/
• The Gothics--Sublime Anxiety: The Gothic Family and the Outsider http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/exhibits/gothic/open.html
• Humanist [the most comprehensive list for the humanities] http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/
• Internet Library of Early Journals http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/
• Jouvert: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies http://152.1.96.5/jouvert/
• Kairos: A Journal for Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/index.html
• Languages and Linguistics http://eserver.org/langs/
• The Latin Epic (HyperEpos) http://www.auburn.edu/~downejm/latin.html
• Library Resources on the Net [literary topics by category] http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/
• Online Literary Criticism Collection [index to criticism online] http://www.ipl.org/ref/litcrit/
• Literary Traveler http://www.literarytraveler.com/
• Medieval Studies -- Labyrinth http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/labyrinth-home.html
• Online Medieval & Classical Library http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/
• NYBooks (The Reader's Website) http://www.nybooks.com/
• Myths, Legends & Folklore http://rtiess.tripod.com/mythologies.htm/
• Oxford Text Initiative http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/
• Paul Brians' Common Errors in English Page http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/
• Paul Brians' Serious Links Page [language and literature sites] http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/favorite_sites.html
• Poetry Magazine http://www.poetrymagazine.org/
• Postmodern Culture http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/pmc/
• Queer Studies http://www.uky.edu/StudentOrgs/QueerInfo/qstudy.htm
• Renaissance English Literature http://www.luminarium.org/lumina.htm
• A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples http://www.uky.edu/AS/Classics/rhetoric.html
• Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric [guide to the terms of classical and renaissance rhetoric] http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/silva.htm
• Sonnet Central http://www.sonnets.org/
• Speech & Transcript Center http://www.freepint.com/gary/speech.htm
• Spoon Collective Theory Lists http://lists.village.virginia.edu/~spoons/
• Teaching With Electronic Technology http://www.wam.umd.edu/~mlhall/teaching.html
• Voice of the Shuttle (UC Santa Barbara) [mainly indexes primary sources] http://vos.ucsb.edu/index-netscape.asp
• The Write Site [aimed at middle school teaching] http://www.writesite.org/
• Writers' Guild of America--Resources for Writers http://www.wga.org/
• Writers Write: Resources for Writers http://www.writerswrite.com/

University Libraries Liaison: Elisabeth Knight (x6117 / elisabeth.knight@wku.edu) last updated 9/18/2008
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